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Clinical Outcomes in Rib Removal Surgery for Waistline Reduction
Rib removal surgery represents the elimination of the last anatomic...
The Surgical Technique of Clavicular Osteotomies in Shoulder Width Reduction
Shoulder width reduction is done by shortening the length of the...
The shape and appearance of the forehead is highly influenced by...
Background: The evolution of rhinoplasty surgery over the past twenty years...
Background: Reduction of broad or wide cheeks can only be effectively done by an osteotomy/bone repositioning technique. There is a very limited use of any cheek reduction by bone shaving as it does not remove enough bone and can not remove it where the real cause of cheek widening is. The cheekbone is comprised of Read More…
Background: Aesthetic contouring of the cheeks could involve augmentation or reduction. In either case potential treatment areas include the bone or the soft tissue. Augmentation is the most conceptually understood because that involves either an implant to augment the bone or fat injections to add volume to the soft tissues. Conversely cheek reduction means reducing Read More…
Asian patients are well known for the propensity for prominent cheekbones which creates a flatter and wider midface. This type of midface structure in the Asian patient can create a desire for less wide and more projected cheekbones. As a result a variety of cheek bone reduction osteotomies have been designed over the past four Read More…
A frequent aesthetic facial request is the desire to reduce full or round cheeks. The most recognized procedure to do so is the well known buccal lipectomy. While removal of this encapsulated cheek fat is effective it is not a complete cheek reduction procedure. Tbere are other subcutaneous cheek areas around the buccal fat area Read More…
Cheekbone reductions are typically done by a bone repositioning technique. Using an osteotomy cut through the main body of the zygoma done intraorally and an external skin approach to a bone cut through the posterior zygomatic arch, the entire cheek bone is moved inward. The analogy I often make is that it is like taking Read More…
Making the cheeks less full or slimmer typically refers to reduction of the soft tissue trampoline area of the midface. Sandwiched between the cheekbones and the bony jawline are the soft tissues of the cheek which are suspended like a trampoline between these bony attachments. The only tissue removal that can be done in the Read More…
Background: V line and cheekbone reduction surgeries today are well known facial reduction/reshaping procedures. They have their origins in Asia where they are commonly performed and is very popular amongst young patients. But just like facial implant augmentations where the result can be seen to be too much, facial bone reductions can also end up Read More…
Reshaping of the soft tissue of the cheek for a less full or thinner facal appearance has long been the promise of the buccal lipectomy procedure. While effective for some patients the procedure is often misused with the belief that will it affect the entire cheek/midface region from the bony cheeks down to the jawline. Read More…
The only effective technique for narrowing the cheeks are reduction osteotomies. By moving in the anterior cheekbone proper combined with relocation of the tail of the zygomatic arch at its temporal attachment allows the width of the cheekbones to be reduced reduced. While highly effective a well known sequelae of this surgery is some degree Read More…
Reshaping the full or round cheek area is most commonly treated by a buccal lipectomy. This now popular procedure, performed intraorally and with a very low rate of any complications, has often misunderstood aesthetic effects. It has its effects in the upper cheek which is defined by what lies north of a line drawn between Read More…
Clinical Outcomes in Rib Removal Surgery for Waistline Reduction
Rib removal surgery represents the elimination of the last anatomic...
The Surgical Technique of Clavicular Osteotomies in Shoulder Width Reduction
Shoulder width reduction is done by shortening the length of the...
The shape and appearance of the forehead is highly influenced by...
Background: The evolution of rhinoplasty surgery over the past twenty years...